The fourth year of the Energy Assistance and Solar Savings Initiative has been launched.
It’s a partnership between the City of South Bend, IFF and CDFI Friendly South Bend which works to assist local nonprofits, schools, community organizations and businesses with making energy efficiency upgrades.
The program provides community organizations with a free energy assessment and resources to address gaps to finance projects, as well as matches grant funding up to $30,000 for projects.
36 organizations have been helped in the program’s three years, leading to 13 solar projects and more than 30 energy efficiency projects.
Applicants can apply by February 24 on the City of South Bend’s website.
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More “green money” going to fund geenies pockets and doing nothing to provide energy independence.
Some of the largest solar farms (Crescent Dunes and Ivanpah) are closing after just a few years. The technology simply doesn’t work, and is certainly not “green” because it makes more e-waste than in saves in carbon emissions (which nature can deal with, unlike solar cell materials). As an added bonus, solar land is permanently too toxic to farm because of the runoff chemicals leeching into the soil.
Can we just admit that solar is dead and stop wasting resources and land on this?